Is it just me, or does the website look like 12-yr old's first try with HTML? does that mean i'm in good hands?
Yes, the site design is atrocious. But nobody else is promising to take people to Jupiter for $250,000.
Okay, I'm being silly. What they should do with the site before they make any other much-needed changes is take away the Jupiter closeup, cause the passengers aren't going to be seeing that. They should put a big, beautiful, suborbital shot of Earth up on the front page, and carefully insert a digital image of their rocket. In short, they should make it look like an airline advertisement.
I don't think people's apprehension of nuclear power is nonsensical, only the parent's comparison of power stations to bombs, which is pure apples and oranges, as any nuclear physicist will tell you.
Shit, I'm too tired to get wordy, so I'll just leave it at this: Chernobyl's RBMK reactor is a shoddy and primitive design that is as about as different from a modern design as a Univac mainframe is from the computer you're sitting in front of.
Do some actual reading about engineering and nuclear physics instead of making nonsensical statements about controlled bomb-blasts.
What's wrong with recasting? It worked with Ewan MacGregor as Obi-Wan. I'd love to see what some A-list talent could do with the original characters, and most of all, I'd like to see who gets to play the dastardly Thrawn.
Brilliant. Thanks, I was wondering where the book title, None Dare Call It Treason came from. What does one call behavior such as this? If the people who comprise the ruling Establishment harbor no nationalist sentiment, can their treachery against their subjects be called "treasonous," or is another word called for? The term "criminal" seems weak and overused.
Or they might not - hasn't this been the excuse for ever more destructive weapons since time immemorial 'they'll save more lives than they destroy'? It has never turned out to be true. The aim of war is never minimal loss of lives to both sides.
Hmm, I can think of two examples right off the bat: Fulton, who thought his submarine would make naval warfare too costly to undertake, and Gatling, who purposely invented the Gatling gun in a bid to make war so terrible that humankind would abandon it. Alas, then, as now, technology cannot solve our deficiency in ethics.
Then the war ended and the Labor government shipped top-of-the-line Rolls-Royce jet engines to the Soviets, who promptly put an adapted version into the MiG-15.
They ought to either buy out one of the ROM emulators or make their own, then release it as a free download. Then they can sell CHEAP downloads of their old games, or release official ROM packs on CDs and jazz them up with well-written booklets full of old art and Nintendo lore. People will pay for those things.
And I hope Nintendo is listening when I say they should throw in a coupon for some meaningful amount off the purchase price of a Nintendo Revolution.
Wow, so for every Jar-Jar rendered, there can be 10 more just like him! Flippancy aside, I do wonder that the ability to make eye-candy that much faster might actually have a negative effect on movie going.
Chee-rist, I hope not. I'm still feeling after-effects from the scripts of Episodes I & II.
Disregarding your BS about Kyoto (just how many rainforests do you think there are in the USA, anyway?)
There's a little patch up in Northwest Oregon around Astoria that gets 70 in. of precipitation a year. Part of the Olympic Penninsula in Washington gets 160 in. a year (try a winter there,) and a small swatch along the Tennesee/North Carolina border gets up to 90 in. annually. Southeastern Alaska gets hosed during the winter months, as the mossy vegetation attests, and the rainiest spot on Earth is Hawaii's Mt. Waialeale--440 inches annually. All of these environments qualify as rainforests, though all except the one in Hawaii are temperate.
I wouldn't call her "hot," but she does have charisma. Actually, none of the chicks on that show are exactly tent-pitchingly hot, although Number Six is close...
It looks cool as hell. If only they could find a way to safely put a ferrite-bar antenna in it...
Nevertheless, this device, or ones like it, will catch on with listeners. I wonder when conventional analog radio will croak altogether. If Internet radio keeps gathering steam, that moment may come sooner than anybody can predict. The Internet is transforming the breadth of radio from a narrow range of choices limited to the ones on the dial, to a vast range of "stations" that are really just IP addresses. The old paradigm of radio is like visiting a restaraunt (i.e., a geographic location with its particular stations,) whereas the new model, Internet radio, is like being able to order whatever you desire from virtually any location in the world with no dimunition in quality over distance.
Thou can still install the Divx codecs, and if it makes thy repository unclean, thou can command (in a stern voice) the unclean files to leave thy machine, and if thou hast the Holy Spirit with thee, then they will leave by the grace of Almighty God, Amen.
Or you can just use Synaptic and check out the Ubuntu forums.
That's "pantywaist," to be correct, but frankly, all of this flaming is a, ahem, "waste" of time.
As an indignant, INDIGNANT (*clears throat*) American bystander to this flamefest, I must convey the exact nature of my indignation; that is, that "Republicanism," a doctrine attributed to a certain political party, is a fear of individual initiative. No, no, no. I can't let that slide. Republicanism, to distinguish the doctrine from it's supposed adherents, is the belief in a government strictly limited in its powers to the ones allocated to it by a rigid code of laws.
The ones nowadays calling themselves "Republicans" are about as far from this doctrine as the militants calling themselves "Christians" are from the teachings of the world's foremost pacifist.
I checked out the videos. Those snakes look like a lot of fun. I don't know if dropping them out of windows is as much fun as it is with cats, but it does look like fun.
*thoughtful pause*
You know, has anybody come up with a remote-control steerable airfoil that can be worn by cats? It has to be something that they can't wriggle out of in a panic, as might be the case if they're released from the top of a fully-extended crane. I just happen to know a certain adventurous feline who loves flying.
Damn. I gotta know: are you one of those GNAA trolls (funny) or are you a bitter, sexually-confused dude who lives in Mom's basement and has a part-time gig as a security guard at Safeway (sad?)
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Yes, the site design is atrocious. But nobody else is promising to take people to Jupiter for $250,000.
Okay, I'm being silly. What they should do with the site before they make any other much-needed changes is take away the Jupiter closeup, cause the passengers aren't going to be seeing that. They should put a big, beautiful, suborbital shot of Earth up on the front page, and carefully insert a digital image of their rocket. In short, they should make it look like an airline advertisement.
I don't think people's apprehension of nuclear power is nonsensical, only the parent's comparison of power stations to bombs, which is pure apples and oranges, as any nuclear physicist will tell you.
Do some actual reading about engineering and nuclear physics instead of making nonsensical statements about controlled bomb-blasts.
Yeah, as in choosing to invade Russia on the very same day that Napoleon did, June 22nd.
What's wrong with recasting? It worked with Ewan MacGregor as Obi-Wan. I'd love to see what some A-list talent could do with the original characters, and most of all, I'd like to see who gets to play the dastardly Thrawn.
Oh, wait--I forgot organized religion.
Hey Chinaski, are you still with that crazy Lydia bitch or did she finally throw all your stuff out? Just wondering.
Classic case in point being the rise of (private sector) organized crime in the United States.
Brilliant. Thanks, I was wondering where the book title, None Dare Call It Treason came from. What does one call behavior such as this? If the people who comprise the ruling Establishment harbor no nationalist sentiment, can their treachery against their subjects be called "treasonous," or is another word called for? The term "criminal" seems weak and overused.
I'm still pissed off about crossbows, personally.
Hmm, I can think of two examples right off the bat: Fulton, who thought his submarine would make naval warfare too costly to undertake, and Gatling, who purposely invented the Gatling gun in a bid to make war so terrible that humankind would abandon it. Alas, then, as now, technology cannot solve our deficiency in ethics.
Then the war ended and the Labor government shipped top-of-the-line Rolls-Royce jet engines to the Soviets, who promptly put an adapted version into the MiG-15.
And I hope Nintendo is listening when I say they should throw in a coupon for some meaningful amount off the purchase price of a Nintendo Revolution.
Chee-rist, I hope not. I'm still feeling after-effects from the scripts of Episodes I & II.
That is possibly the coolest nick ever. I assume you saw the episode where Corky takes Driver's Ed.
Exactly. Fuck with Voltron and you fuck with yourself.
Booyah.
There's a little patch up in Northwest Oregon around Astoria that gets 70 in. of precipitation a year. Part of the Olympic Penninsula in Washington gets 160 in. a year (try a winter there,) and a small swatch along the Tennesee/North Carolina border gets up to 90 in. annually. Southeastern Alaska gets hosed during the winter months, as the mossy vegetation attests, and the rainiest spot on Earth is Hawaii's Mt. Waialeale--440 inches annually. All of these environments qualify as rainforests, though all except the one in Hawaii are temperate.
I wouldn't call her "hot," but she does have charisma. Actually, none of the chicks on that show are exactly tent-pitchingly hot, although Number Six is close...
Nevertheless, this device, or ones like it, will catch on with listeners. I wonder when conventional analog radio will croak altogether. If Internet radio keeps gathering steam, that moment may come sooner than anybody can predict. The Internet is transforming the breadth of radio from a narrow range of choices limited to the ones on the dial, to a vast range of "stations" that are really just IP addresses. The old paradigm of radio is like visiting a restaraunt (i.e., a geographic location with its particular stations,) whereas the new model, Internet radio, is like being able to order whatever you desire from virtually any location in the world with no dimunition in quality over distance.
Bah, they rejected Gilliam because they feared the random onslaught of the dreaded 12-ton Weight.
Or you can just use Synaptic and check out the Ubuntu forums.
As an indignant, INDIGNANT (*clears throat*) American bystander to this flamefest, I must convey the exact nature of my indignation; that is, that "Republicanism," a doctrine attributed to a certain political party, is a fear of individual initiative. No, no, no. I can't let that slide. Republicanism, to distinguish the doctrine from it's supposed adherents, is the belief in a government strictly limited in its powers to the ones allocated to it by a rigid code of laws.
The ones nowadays calling themselves "Republicans" are about as far from this doctrine as the militants calling themselves "Christians" are from the teachings of the world's foremost pacifist.
*thoughtful pause*
You know, has anybody come up with a remote-control steerable airfoil that can be worn by cats? It has to be something that they can't wriggle out of in a panic, as might be the case if they're released from the top of a fully-extended crane. I just happen to know a certain adventurous feline who loves flying.
Now that would make for some entertaining cinema.
Damn. I gotta know: are you one of those GNAA trolls (funny) or are you a bitter, sexually-confused dude who lives in Mom's basement and has a part-time gig as a security guard at Safeway (sad?)